Historical place profile
Kastro ano Diakopto
Abundant spolia, artifacts, and building foundations provide evidence for an ancient settlement in the area of modern Kastro ano Diakopto and the church of Ag. Athanasios on the hill above it to the west. It is probably to be identified with ancient Boura, an attested settlement of Achaia.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570166
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570166
- Place type
- church-2, settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 38.142737, 22.205422
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Abundant spolia, artifacts, and building foundations provide evidence for an ancient settlement in the area of modern Kastro ano Diakopto and the church of Ag. Athanasios on the hill above it to the west. It is probably to be identified with ancient Boura, an attested settlement of Achaia.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 C1 Boura
Source and reuse
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Research path
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